clever pumice
About 2 days ago, everything was working fine and correctly. Ever since these last few updates, my game now hard crashes to desktop after I kill any NPCs. I don't have any faulty addons to cause this as I reverted to a previous game build I had backed up about a week ago (with the same config and addons and everything) and everything works correctly there, no crashes.
I'm currently using the x86-x64 chromium branch.
serene viper
serene viper
how exactly are you making the crash happen?
clever pumice
Load a map, get weapons, spawn any NPC (tested with combines mostly), kill npc, about 0.2 seconds later the game hard crashes to desktop.
Using serverside ragdolls with keep corpses on, before the crash, there's a few frames where the NPC correctly transitions to a serverside ragdoll.
Although it did crash with keep corpses off too
So I doubt that's the cause
serene viper
can you try disabling all addons?
clever pumice
Alright, I'll try that.
With addons disabled with -noworkshop -noaddons, there's no crash when killing NPCs.
So the new update has more or less busted up one or more of the addons I use...
serene viper
how many you got?
clever pumice
Well I've altered my experience significantly with some workshop ones and other ones I've made for myself, and keep locally.
Typically a lua error would be great for pinpointing but that's outta the question with the hard crash. Going through the files one by one is going to be a pain in the ass...
serene viper
do you have any workshop addons? You can try disabling jsut the workshop ones and not the local ones and testing, that would narrow it down
clever pumice
Yeah I was gonna try that
Well, it's definitely local stuff. I'll check around the files that use OnNPCKilled and otherwise modify NPC death behavior, if I can pinpoint it, I'll shoot a message here with the code that's busted up.
serene viper
Well, it's definitely local stuff. I'll check around the files that use OnNPCKil...
its likely related to collision stuff
logic_collision_pair maybe
clever pumice
NPC logic is probably not the cause, crash still occurs even without OnNPCKilled hooks.
I'll see if something that's altering ragdolls specifically could be the cause.
Hallellujah! I pinpointed the cause. It's a Workshop addon which I had downloaded locally and changed the collision groups. You were right on the money with the collisions probably being the cause.
Here's the addon file:
It alters the collision groups to prevent collision with player and NPC entities.